September 2016 – Young Feminist Europe

Lithuanian Gold Fish Ruta Meilutyte

Marija Kuosaite • 09/22/2016

Rio Olympics 2016 was one of the biggest events this summer that captured the world’s attention. What we saw is a competition between countries that win more medals, but inside every sport and country has a different story. One such story is about a young Lithuanian swimmer, Ruta Meilutyte, who won all possible champions in the world, but at the end of the Rio Olympics surprisingly returned to Lithuania without a single medal.

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A Feminist State of the Union

Ciara Coughlan • 09/16/2016

On September 14th, Jean Claude Juncker, on behalf of the European Commission, reviewed a year of EU achievements and outlined his action plan for the next twelve months in the much anticipated “State of the Union” speech. We, 52 young feminists, representing 22 diverse European countries, have written our response – a feminist State of the Union.

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Claire blogs about #Agora16, part 3 - Claire in the European Parliament

#AGORA16: During Feminist Summer School, Part 3

Claire Heuchan • 09/14/2016

Claire is attending this year’s AGORA young feminist summer school. She’s blogging about intersectionality, how race operates as a dynamic, racism in the feminist movement, and white privilege. Today she talks about the weekend at the AGORA young feminist summer school

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#AGORA16: During Feminist Summer School, Part 2

Claire Heuchan • 09/12/2016

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#AGORA16 – During Feminist Summer School, Part 1

Claire Heuchan • 09/09/2016

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The Flemish Green Party – do they practice gender mainstreaming? – De groene partij van Vlaanderen – Is gendermainstreaming de norm? [EN/NL]

Ashley Vandekerckhove • 09/04/2016

The Flemish Green Party in Belgium is a political party which aims to be inclusive and diverse in its goals and policies. But is it as progressive as party leaders want us to think? The party already successfully practices environmental mainstreaming – is the same true for gender mainstreaming? An analysis.

Groen is een politieke partij die probeert zo inclusief en divers mogelijk te zijn in de doelstellingen en beleidsmaatregelen. Maar zijn ze zo progressief als de partijleiders ons doen denken? De partij is al succesvol in het mainstreamen van milieukwesties binnen hun beleid – kunnen we zeggen dat dit ook zo is wat betreft gender mainstreaming? Een analyse.

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